What is the worst season ticket in history? i.e. which team had the dullest set of matches
Sept 6, 2018 14:21:37 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 6, 2018 14:21:37 GMT
... across a whole campaign?
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/05/which-football-team-had-the-dullest-set-of-home-games-across-a-season
Step forward the extremely kind Daniel Potter who, upon reading Andy’s question, sent us a vast dataset to help answer this. Take it away, Daniel:
“If you’re a neutral supporter and your metric for excitement in a football match is simply the overall number of goals you get to see in a game, the award for the dullest set of home matches in an English top-flight season goes to Stuart Pearce’s Manchester City side in 2006–07, who scored 10 and conceded 16 goals in 19 matches at home, an average of 1.37 goals per game. Runners-up are fans of Birmingham City in 1948-49 and Leicester City in 1971-72, who both got to see a total of 29 goals in 21 matches, or 1.38 per game.
“If we include lower divisions of the Football League, games hosted by the now defunct Rotherham County in the 1921-22 Second Division, can beat all of these in boredom, with 17 goals for and 7 against in 21 matches (1.14 GPG).
“I then added data from a few other European leagues to the analysis and, somewhat unsurprisingly, Serie A can beat these records comfortably. In 1984–85 Como were unbeaten in their 15 home matches with five wins and 10 draws (nine of them goalless), scoring eight goals and conceding only two in the process (one of them a Diego Maradona penalty), for a total of 0.67 goals per game. I’d be surprised if this can be beaten.
“If we flip it around and look for the most ‘exciting’ set of home games, it seems like things really used to be better in the old days, with the top eight all from the 19th century, led by Blackburn Rovers in 1889-90. Their home games had an astonishing seven goals per game. In the Premier League era, Chelsea supporters in 2009-10 got to see an average of 4.31 goals every time they went to Stamford Bridge.”
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/05/which-football-team-had-the-dullest-set-of-home-games-across-a-season
Step forward the extremely kind Daniel Potter who, upon reading Andy’s question, sent us a vast dataset to help answer this. Take it away, Daniel:
“If you’re a neutral supporter and your metric for excitement in a football match is simply the overall number of goals you get to see in a game, the award for the dullest set of home matches in an English top-flight season goes to Stuart Pearce’s Manchester City side in 2006–07, who scored 10 and conceded 16 goals in 19 matches at home, an average of 1.37 goals per game. Runners-up are fans of Birmingham City in 1948-49 and Leicester City in 1971-72, who both got to see a total of 29 goals in 21 matches, or 1.38 per game.
“If we include lower divisions of the Football League, games hosted by the now defunct Rotherham County in the 1921-22 Second Division, can beat all of these in boredom, with 17 goals for and 7 against in 21 matches (1.14 GPG).
“I then added data from a few other European leagues to the analysis and, somewhat unsurprisingly, Serie A can beat these records comfortably. In 1984–85 Como were unbeaten in their 15 home matches with five wins and 10 draws (nine of them goalless), scoring eight goals and conceding only two in the process (one of them a Diego Maradona penalty), for a total of 0.67 goals per game. I’d be surprised if this can be beaten.
“If we flip it around and look for the most ‘exciting’ set of home games, it seems like things really used to be better in the old days, with the top eight all from the 19th century, led by Blackburn Rovers in 1889-90. Their home games had an astonishing seven goals per game. In the Premier League era, Chelsea supporters in 2009-10 got to see an average of 4.31 goals every time they went to Stamford Bridge.”
